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Informationen zum Autor Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians , Inishowen , Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011) and Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa Novel of the Year shortlist). His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. www.josephoconnorauthor.com Klappentext Ranging from contemporary Dublin to New York's Lower East Side, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories offer a gathering of dreamers and lost souls contending with the confusions of living. Here are men without women, children parenting parents, emigrants, travellers, cheats and lovers, and linking the stories is a focus on those everyday moments when possibility seems to appear. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? is a powerfully moving, entertaining and life-affirming read, from the internationally acclaimed author of STAR OF THE SEA. Zusammenfassung Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, this title includes stories that offer a gathering of dreamers and lost souls who contend with the confusions of living.